Linux novices often find virtual memory mysterious, but with a grasp of the fundamental concepts, it's easy to understand. With this knowledge, you can monitor your system's memory utilization using ...

I have a rather specific question I've been trying to answer regarding a detail of Linux's virtual memory management. I haven't been able to find the information after a fair bit of googling and I ...

Major and minor page faults Linux systems allocate memory to processes by breaking physical memory into chunks called “pages” and then mapping those pages into process virtual memory.

On the rare occasion that my Linux desktop freezes, I have a few tricks up my sleeve that keep me from having to do a hard reboot on my machine.

The Linux virtual memory system, in other words, is a black box which provides too little information on what is going on inside. Matt’s project is to open up that box and shine some light ...

Linux is a demand-paged virtual memory system: all memory is broken up into pages—small equal-size chunks of a few kilobytes—and most of these chunks can be swapped (or “paged”) in or out of RAM as ...

Loading up virtual machines is an easy to accomplish task, but configuring them properly is an ongoing balancing act. It’s very likely that in a virtualized environment you will over/under ...